Rabi Yosip Bet Yosip (Assyrian: ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ܒܹܝܬܼ ܝܵܘܣܸܦ ) is an
Assyrian
Assyrian may refer to:
* Assyrian people, the indigenous ethnic group of Mesopotamia.
* Assyria, a major Mesopotamian kingdom and empire.
** Early Assyrian Period
** Old Assyrian Period
** Middle Assyrian Empire
** Neo-Assyrian Empire
* Assyrian ...
poet.
He was born in 1942 in the village of
Zoomalan in
Urmia
Urmia or Orumiyeh ( fa, ارومیه, Variously transliterated as ''Oroumieh'', ''Oroumiyeh'', ''Orūmīyeh'' and ''Urūmiyeh''.) is the largest city in West Azerbaijan Province of Iran and the capital of Urmia County. It is situated at an alt ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
. He is known for writing the Assyrian national anthem,
Roomrama
Roomrama is the ''de facto'' national anthem of the Assyrian people. It was composed by Nebu Juel Issabey and written by Yosip Bet Yosip for the Assyrian Universal Alliance
Assyrian Universal Alliance ( syr, ܚܘܝܕܐ ܬܒ̣ܝܠܝܐ ܐܬܘ ...
.
Organizations
He joined several Assyrian organizations:
* Shooshata Umtanaia (The Society of Assyrian National Progress - Assyrian Youth Organization)
He assisted Shooshata Umtanaia in assembling the first and largest library of Assyrian books ever collected in modern Assyrian history.
* Nineveh Choir (1960,
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
)
Nineveh Choir was conducted by maestro Nebu Issabey in Tehran.
* Sita Sapreyta (Assyrian Youth Cultural Society)
Composed Poems
* Mawd'anuta
* Sluta D-Atouraya D-Idyum
* Sluta D-Burakha
* Atwatè Rushma D-Lishana
* Maqruta L-'ohdana D-Yimmi
* Bèt Nisanè
* Ganta D-Alaha
* Dam‘ita D-Ishtar
* Tèra D-Madinkha
* Martyanuta D-Ninwè Yimma
* Ba‘uta D-Yimma
* Ba‘uta D-Ninwayè
* Qala D-Umta
* Talga D-Turanè D-Hakkarè
* Quyama Dikhya
* Wardè D-Kitwè
* Ktuta Nqirta L-Qayè
* Brata D-Sahda Gu Ma‘irwa
* Bèblè D-Go Lèlawatè
* Ani D-Ki Khayyi ‘am Alaha
* Mhadyanè Sniqè
* Madrashta D-Nsiwin
See also
*
Paulus Khofri
Paulus Khofri ( syr, ܦܘܠܘܣ ܟܦܪܝ, fa, پولوس خفری), was an Assyrian composer, lyricist and painter. He was born August 7, 1923, in Baghdad, Iraq and died in Tehran, Iran in May 2000 at the age of 77.
Biography
Paulus Khofri's ...
*
William D. S. Daniel
References
* Assyrian Aid Society of America, Mesopotaminan Night
* Bethsuryoyo(website)
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Syriac-language singers
Iranian composers
1942 births
Iranian Assyrian people
Singers from Tehran
20th-century Iranian male singers
20th-century composers
Assyrian musicians
People from Urmia
Assyrian Iranian writers
Assyrian writers
Living people
Iranian people of Assyrian descent